12 “Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident alien may be refreshed. (Exodus 23:12 CSB) Why do we have so much difficulty in finding rest? I...
No Comparison
18 With whom will you compare God?What likeness will you set up for comparison with him?19 An idol?—something that a smelter castsand a metalworker plates with goldand makes silver chains for? (Isaiah 40:18-19 CSB) To what do we compare God? Our money? Our things? Our success? Our families? Our power? Everything...
Sent Off
3 Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off. (Acts 13:3 CSB) I have a daughter and son-in-law (and now new grandson) who are on the mission field far away. My Son is in the Navy and he too is far away. So I...
Willing
2 Right away a man with leprosy[a] came up and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. (Matthew 8:2-3 CSB) Do you begin your prayers with, ”Lord, if you are...
Anticipation
32 “Now concerning that day or hour no one knows—neither the angels in heaven nor the Son —but only the Father. (Mark 13:32 CSB) We are an impatient people. But our society has made us this way. Everything is instantanious. Fast food, fast internet, fast medical care, fast, fast, fast… But there are some...